Categories
The main competitive Award categories presented every year are:
- Best Actor
- Best Actress
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
- Includes sketch shows. Judged on the basis of a single episode.
- Lew Grade Award for Best Entertainment Programme
- Includes general entertainment programmes, variety shows, game shows, quizzes, panel games, stand-up and celebrity chat shows. Judged on the basis of a single episode.
- Best Entertainment Performance - Known as Best Light Entertainment Performance prior to 2000.
- Best Female Comedy Performance - Previously one award for Best Comedy Performance, Separate male and female categories created in 2010.
- Best Male Comedy Performance
- Best Drama Serial
- A drama where one main story is told across more than one episode, and the story is resolved in the final episode.
- Best Drama Series
- A drama which consists of several episodes, but each episode tells a self-contained story, with the same characters continuing across the episodes.
- Best Single Drama
- A drama where one self-contained story is told in a single one-off episode, equivalent to a television movie. The minimum length is five minutes.
- Best Continuing Drama
- A drama which transmits a minimum of twenty episodes per year. The nominees are typically soap operas.
- Best Current Affairs - replaced
- The entered programme can be a one-off or part of a series, but if part of a series the same episode may not also be entered in another category. This category was ceased in 2007 due to lack of entrants for the award . However, current affairs programmes can still qualify, but under the category of either Best Single Documentary or Best Factual Series, depending on the genre of the programme. Longlist and nominations for these two categories are expected to expand.
- Best Factual Series or Strand
- Best Feature
- For programmes not included in any other category, for example cookery, gardening, lifestyle or discussion programmes.
- Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
- For a one-off documentary not presented as part of a regular series. Entered programmes cannot also be entered in any other category.
- Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
- Awarded to Arts, History, Natural History or Science one-offs or series, either factual or performance-based. Entered programmes cannot also be entered in any other category.
- News Coverage
- For an individual news programme in its entirety, or up to one hour's unedited. material from a rolling news channel.
- Situation Comedy Award
- For sitcoms.
- Sport
- For a sports programme, as transmitted.
- The Pioneer Award
- Given to programme makers who have achieved success by novel or pioneering approaches. The short-list for this award is prepared by a vote of national television critics, and the winner voted for by the general public, the only BAFTA Television Award given in such a manner.
- International Prize
- For programmes made outside the United Kingdom and/or Ireland. The award was originally handed out in the 1990s but was ceased in 1998. It returned in 2007 replacing the "Current Affairs" category which absorbed to either Best Factual Series and Best Single Documentary.
In 2010 the YouTube Audience Award was added.
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